Sword of Coming

A chance encounter in the river of life often ends in separation.

The blind old Taoist named Xuan Guzi was silent all the way, which made the little girl feel a little unaccustomed to drinking.

Although the lame boy was unwilling to hand over the snake gallstone, after hesitation and entanglement, he still took the initiative to hand it to the ill-tempered master.

The old Taoist took the fine-textured stone, held it in his hand and rubbed it carefully for a moment, then for the first time handed it back to the young man, "Keep it for yourself."

The lame boy took the stone in confusion and looked at Xiao Jiu'er, who also shook his head quietly, indicating that he couldn't guess the master's thoughts.

The old man said softly: "Little cripple, this is your fate. If the master can't take it away, it will not be a good thing. Why do you think that young man named Chen Ping'an used the inn to send a letter back to Longquan County? I guess If we were to be a teacher instead of picking out the stones with our own hands when we got to Tai Sui or Caotou Shop, our life there would not be easy, and we might not be made things difficult for us, but don’t even think about gaining a foothold smoothly, let alone Forget about finding a mountain top and living under someone else's roof to practice cultivation."

The lame boy said oh, he is not a person with a curvy heart and is not good at thinking about these problems.

The blind old Taoist rubbed the little girl's head and said, "You two are so lucky."

Xiao Jiu'er was more thoughtful than his brother and asked, "Master, are the life experiences of young lady and the others unusual?"

The old Taoist nodded and said: "That Longquan County was originally the Lizhu Cave Sky above the Great Li Dynasty. It was broken and then took root on the ground. Before, there was the Confucian saint Qi Jingchun who sat here for a period of time. Now these children are carrying book boxes, each one smarter than the other. They say they are going on a long trip to the Great Sui Academy, so do you think whose students they will be?"

The little girl was a little envious, "Students of Confucian saints are really amazing."

The blind old Taoist sneered: "How about the Fengxue Temple Sword Immortal Wei Jin, the first thing he did when he broke through the barrier was to come to rescue him? Besides, these children have a Yin God as a retinue, and they can actually threaten that child." The fierce female ghost is a source of water, and none of these children are fuel-efficient lamps."

The old man sighed: "The future is limitless, limitless."

The little girl was a bit belated and asked curiously: "Since Master knows that they are protected by experts, why bother to tell them about the situation of the ghosts in Sanzhi Mountain? They don't have to worry at all."

The old Taoist reached out and pinched the little girl's cheek out of habit, and said with a smile: "Silly girl, this is called favor without cost. You can become a good person without spending a single copper coin. Why don't you do it?"

The little girl said timidly: "But if people see through Master's thoughts, wouldn't Master just be superfluous?"

The old Taoist was speechless, shook his head and sighed, and finally patted the little girl on the head, "Master, I will treat you two better in the future. Master, for so many years, he always thought about picking up a huge leak one day, and he could pick one up casually on the roadside. I am an extremely talented disciple who often dislikes you two because they are not from good backgrounds and have a shady background, but looking back, it turns out that Master has been in trouble."

The little girl was a little scared. Such an old Taoist was so unfamiliar. Her face turned pale and she said, "Master, are you possessed by a ghost? You don't even recognize him after drinking."

The old Taoist laughed loudly and suddenly said in a low voice: "Jiu'er, master promised not to collect the talisman spring within one year. Now I will discuss with you and change it from one year to half a year. How about it? What do you think, master's trip?" When it comes to subduing demons and slaying demons, it’s true that the devil is as tall as the Taoist. Not only did he give the female ghost a good beating, but not only were four words missing from the banner, but he also sent out a copy of the "Search" passed down by the master's ancestors. "Mountain Pictures", you disciples, don't you know how to feel sorry for your master and show your filial piety?"

The little girl was relieved, this was the master she was familiar with, so she said simply: "Half a year, half a year!"

The lame boy carefully collected the stone and said dullly: "The stone is already mine."

The blind old Taoist was so angry that he yelled: "A dog can't change its habit of eating shit!"

The little girl covered her mouth with one hand and smiled.

The little cripple also laughed.

In a deserted place, the Yin God revealed his true form, but his face was still blurry, black smoke surrounded his body, and the Yin energy was dense. He said hoarsely: "I couldn't protect you, and you were kidnapped to the female ghost's mansion. I'm sorry. ”

Chen Ping'an really didn't know how to comfort people, so he held it in for a long time before finally saying, "Just do your best."

Yin Shen smiled bleakly, "Anyway, I can't escape the blame this time. Especially because I was greedy for personal cultivation, which brought you to such a situation, I really have a bad conscience. If something happens to you, I will even Afterwards, there is no point in destroying the mountain roots and water sources here and dying together with the female ghost."

Li Baoping said with a smile: "When I was a child, my elder brother liked to tell me some weird things. Once he told a story about a city god, saying that the way to measure moral virtue is different. I remember it very clearly, it is called doing good even if you have the intention to do it. If you don’t reward, you will not be punished even if you do evil unintentionally. When your manpower is exhausted, if you try your best and do your best, you don’t have to feel too guilty. Otherwise, being a human being is tiring and being a ghost is tiring.”

Yin Shen was speechless, being taught principles by a little girl. Even though she had shown a gentlemanly attitude before, it was still a bit awkward.

The little girl fell into her own world again. She was a little annoyed and pounded her palms with her fists. "My eldest brother always said these weird things. I only listened to them as interesting stories at the time. I should have been more attentive if I had known better."

Chen Pingan was about to speak but stopped.

Yin Shen looked at Chen Pingan and smiled: "Can we talk alone?"

Chen Pingan nodded and let Lin Shouyi and the others go first.

Yin Shen waited until Lin Shouyi and the others were about half a mile away and said, "I was arranged by old man Yang from the drug store to protect Li Huai."

Chen Pingan scratched his head, "I thought you were here to protect Baoping or Lin Shouyi."

The Yin God smiled and said: "Li Huai's father, Li Er, almost killed the vassal king Song Changjing. He was very powerful. Once, Li Er came to Old Man Yang and said that his wife was being bullied, and he wanted to go out to find that family. The ancestors wanted to settle accounts and must leave Lizhu Cave. Old Yang was stubborn and had to agree. Later, I heard that there was an Xianjia Mountain Gate in Aquarius Continent with good heritage, and Li Er demolished it with his fists. The Patriarch Hall, and we fought all the way from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain."

Chen Pingan opened his mouth wide.

Don't they all say that Li Er is the most unpromising man in the west of the town? Even his son Li Huai has always thought so.

Chen Pingan asked in confusion: "Why didn't Li Er tell Li Huai?"

Yin Shen seemed to be in a much better mood after mentioning Li Er, "Li Er has a very bad temper, otherwise he wouldn't have married Li Huai's mother as his wife."

Chen Ping'an laughed heartily and said: "Li Huai will be very happy when he knows the truth."

Yin Shen asked: "You don't plan to tell Li Huai this? Over at Pillow Station, you told Baoping the truth directly, even if A Liang advised you not to tell her in a hurry."

Chen Pingan walked forward slowly, "I think it is right about my own affairs. Of course I can make my own decisions. But since Li Huai's father is unwilling to tell his son, why should I, an outsider, tell Li Huai the truth? ? Is it because I think Li Huai will be happier like this? This is not good. "

Yin Shen nodded, thinking that no wonder Li Er didn't think highly of those favored men, but valued this boy from Mud Bottle Lane more. He even broke the rules and wanted to give the golden carp together with the Dragon King Basket. Chen Pingan.

Chen Ping'an suddenly stopped and asked: "Because I have very good eyesight and was worried that you were a bad person at the time, so I remember clearly that when Senior Yinshen showed up for the first time, the first thing he saw was me. I went to see Li Huai, why? Is it just an unintentional act? If you don’t want to answer, Senior Yin Shen can pretend that I didn’t ask.”

If the Yin Shen were still alive, his mouth would be dry and he would be on pins and needles.

He had never imagined that Chen Ping'an would be so attentive. At that time, his sight flashed away and he was no longer well hidden.

However, when he thought of Chen Pingan's performance along the way, Yin Shen felt relieved again. This was probably the reason why Chen Pingan was able to convince the public.

Even if Lin Shouyi has now reached the fifth level and become a real mountain god, Li Baoping still won't listen to him, and the same goes for Li Huai. As for the Yin Shen himself, I'm afraid there will be no exception. In his eyes, Lin Shouyi, After all, he is just an extremely smart and well-qualified young man.

This feeling is very strange.

It seems that the boy from Mud Bottle Alley has a kind of temperament that makes people feel "peaceful" and "naturally justified".

If the boy says this is wrong, other people in the team will think that it is wrong.

If the young man says this is feasible, then he can do it.

But what's even more strange is that the boy has never deliberately shown off any of his strengths.

On the contrary, he would humbly ask for advice on literacy and reading from the little girl who called him Junior Uncle. He never even regarded Li Huai as an ignorant child, and was willing to stay and chat with Lin Shouyi, listening to the latter talk about the world outside.

Yin Shen finally smiled and said: "I won't answer this question yet. Anyway, you don't have to worry, I won't harm you."

Chen Pingan trotted forward, turned around and said with a smile: "If I didn't believe senior, I wouldn't have asked this question."

Yin Shen slowly disappeared and sighed, traveling far away with these children, feeling really tired.

In fact, Zhu Lu, the maid with a bad temperament, is considered a genius who cannot be underestimated among the ordinary members of the Yamashita Dynasty. It is a pity that in this team, she has been thrown away from the beginning to the end. In every aspect, none of them can compare.

Going further south, it seems that first the Longxuxi River and the Tiefu River, and then the Xiuhua River, Chongdan River, and so on, there is more water than the mountains, but in the next day and a half, it seems that all the "water transportation" is used up. It's hard to find even mountain streams. In fact, there is water, but it's all stagnant puddles that are undrinkable. Most of them are sickly willow seedlings, neither tall nor lush, and often crooked. Flying insects are everywhere along the way. It always makes people feel uncomfortable.

Li Huai was a little scared, because the blind old Taoist with a crow's mouth said that they would soon pass by a ghost place called Sanzhi Mountain, where there were evil ghosts, and there were some infernal corpses that could serve as the evil ghost's minions.

When he thought of this, Li Huai felt depressed. His painted puppets and clay figurines were too small. Even if he survived, he would still be capable of fighting. What's more, he couldn't survive the five small clay statues presented by the sword fairy in white. No matter how much he covered himself with heat, he couldn't be a liar. He didn't want to give himself good things in his heart, and he couldn't let go of the sword fairy's airs, so he deliberately Draw a big pie for yourself?

In the dusk, Chen Pingan stopped to set up a stove to cook. Li Huai ran to pick up a large handful of dry branches. Then he squatted aside and complained to Chen Pingan: "Chen Pingan, I think Fengxue Temple is famous in the Wei and Jin Dynasties." Not good."

Chen Pingan ignored him.

Li Huai went to his bookcase and took out a painted puppet and a clay figurine. He used the puppet to bully the little clay figurine holding a sword, and then made the latter kneel down and beg for mercy, shouting "Ms. Ghost, please spare my life." , I, Wei Jin, know I was wrong..."

Chen Pingan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to explain: "Wei Jin is a very good person."

Li Huai rolled his eyes, moved his hands wildly, and continued to let the painted puppets ravage the clay figurines.

Lin Shouyi was sitting on a stone not far away, looking through the "Soushan Picture". He raised his head and said, "If I'm not mistaken, Wei and Jin seem to look down on you, or in other words, they think least of you."

Li Baoping, who was silently packing the small book box, was furious, "Is there such a thing?"

After lying on the ground with his butt sticking out, and slowly lighting the firewood pile, Chen Ping'an squatted down and prepared to cook, "Looking down on me, what does it have to do with whether he is a good person or not?"

Li Huai looked shocked, "Chen Pingan, what do you think, people who look down on me can still be good people? They must not be that good people!"

Chen Pingan got busy in an orderly manner and said to himself: "People as powerful as Wei and Jin are still called land swordsmen, but when they talk to us, they are still kind and kind, and they are willing to tell us children the truth and reason. Do you think all the gods on the mountain are like this? No. Before I left the town, I met gods who killed people only based on their own mood and their own reasons, and there was more than one."

The young man talked about those murderous past events in an understatement, and did not want to say more. He continued: "If you want to be respected, you have to rely on yourself. Do good crops, do good porcelain drawing, go into the mountains to chop wood and burn charcoal." You are the strongest, fight among alleys for water, are not afraid of getting beaten, dare to rush ahead, and people will naturally look up to you."

Chen Pingan glanced at them and said, "This is in our hometown. In the future, when Aquarius arrives at Sui Academy, if he is very good at studying, and Lin Shouyi, who has become a Qi practitioner at a young age, he will certainly be able to be respected. As for you, Li Huai..., wait until you are older. There is no need to rush now.

Li Huai became anxious, "Chen Pingan, you are not in a hurry, but I am!"

Chen Pingan asked: "Get up early every morning to practice walking and boxing with me. Can you get up?"

Li Huai did not hesitate: "Of course I can't get up!"

Chen Ping'an asked again: "How about teaching you how to set up a sword furnace?"

Li Huai looked disgusted, "Why should I learn that? I'm so young."

Chen Pingan said helplessly: "Now that you know you are young? Then why were you so anxious with me in the first place?"

Li Huai was stunned. After thinking for a long time, he still had no answer. Finally, when everyone was sitting around eating together, Li Huai picked up a piece of pickled vegetables. After a big mouthful of rice, he asked: "Do you think there is any shortcut method in the world that can be achieved overnight? For example, if you practice today, you will be able to do it tomorrow." The ability to become a god? A Liang said he didn’t have it. If I had known before Wei and Jin left, I should have asked him if he had it. What if A Liang didn’t have it? Then I would be rich. This time I went to Sui Dynasty to study. , I just stepped on a flying sword, swish, swish, back and forth, faster than Chen Pingan walking, like the wind! Just follow me and eat dust!"

Li Baoping asked with a straight face: "Who eats dust?"

Li Huai swallowed, looked at Lin Shouyi, and then silently turned to look at Chen Ping'an. Finally, Li Huai felt a little sad, and suddenly an idea came to him. He quickly picked up the painted puppet from the ground, "It eats! She is now But the A-level general under my command! I can’t help it. He is the tallest, the prettiest, and the oldest. He has been fighting in all directions with me, Li Huai, for the longest time. After that, those five dirty little clay figurines, It can only be ranked as B, B, D, and Wu Ji."

Lin Shou smiled and asked, "What about the little thing in the book "Broken Water Cliff"?"

Li Huai shook his head and said, "Them? I don't like them very much."

Li Baoping revealed the secret in one sentence, "Maybe it's because you don't like reading. You just don't want to see them because you need to turn the pages first."

Li Huai had an expression on his face that said I didn't hear clearly what you said.

Chen Ping'an looked up at the slightly higher Sanzhi Mountain in the distance and asked, "After passing Sanzhi Mountain, we arrived at the town market. Do you want to buy anything?"

Li Baoping said excitedly: "Uncle Master, I want to buy some miscellaneous books. Mr. Qi said that hundreds of schools of thought besides Confucianism have their own classics. You might as well read more. Mr. Qi said that stones from other mountains can be used to attack Jade."

"Chen Pingan, if possible, I would like to buy a chess set. The cheapest one will do."

"Where are you, Li Huai?"

"Give me money and don't buy anything, okay? I want to save it. My mother taught me that if you have money in your pocket, you won't panic!"

Chen Pingan asked back: "What do you think?"

Li Huai chuckled and said, "Isn't this just a fluke? What if your conscience, Chen Ping'an, finds out?"

Chen Pingan laughed.

Li Huai's smile suddenly froze and he quickly changed the subject, "Didn't the old Taoist tell us not to go to Sanzhi Mountain as long as it gets dark?"

Lin Shou shook his head and said: "I have discussed it with Chen Pingan and Senior Yin Shen. If we are traveling at night and the evil ghost comes out to hurt people, we will suppress it. At first, Senior Yin Shen will stand by and let me take action first and try to Using talismans and lightning techniques to repel the enemy is mainly for me to practice. If the evil ghost can't hide, forget it and we will continue on our way."

As night fell, the group slowly climbed the mountain. Sanzhi Mountain was not high, but the mountain was gentle and the slopes were large. Chen Ping'an even deliberately took a detour. There were large mass graves on the mountain that had no descendants to add soil. Of course, there were still more descendants. The memorial tomb was neatly tidied, and a monument was erected on the grave. There were words on the monument, and some paper money that had not been burned was scattered in front of the monument.

We crossed Sanzhi Mountain in less than an hour, and there was nothing strange except for the slightly cold night wind.

Lin Shouyi felt a little regretful, but he wouldn't force anything.

After that, the trip to Yefu Pass on the Dali border went more smoothly.

After passing a small town market, Li Baoping bought five or six miscellaneous books, including landscape travel notes, Buddhist and Taoist classics, and literati's notes.

Lin Shouyi bought a chess set and taught Chen Ping'an the rules. He often played chess whenever he had time, because Li Baoping couldn't sit still and wanted to drop seven or eight chess pieces on the chessboard in one go. He always disliked Lin Shou. Chess is too slow. As for Li Huai, he was simply too lazy to use his brain. But the one who played chess with Lin Shou the most was the Yin God.

Li Huai probably spent nearly ten taels of silver on a shabby book in Hongzhu Town, but he didn't buy anything this time.

Although Chen Ping'an wanted to practice swordsmanship a little bit, he didn't really start practicing swordsmanship except occasionally taking out the locust wood sword in his backpack.

In Chen Ping'an's view, the top priority is to practice boxing well first! Wait until you feel you can distract yourself from other things, then practice sword practice. Chen Ping'an has only practiced half of the luck method taught by Aliang, and by the sixth stop he really couldn't go on.

Although I can't practice swords for the time being, A Liang said that the Eighteen Stops are something that many swordsmen have worked hard to figure out. Practicing the Eighteen Stops diligently can be regarded as laying a solid foundation for future sword practice. When Chen Pingan thought about it, he felt very motivated and full of strength.

Whenever I have some free time, I might go to the branches on the top of the mountain or on the edge of the cliff near the water.

There is a young man who makes secrets with his hands, sets up a pile alone, and practices silently facing the mountains and rivers. Look at the mountains when there are mountains, listen to the water when there is water.